Luke Hoag is somewhat of a celebrity in his hometown of Hoosick Falls.

Over the last few weeks, he's collected more than 62,000 letters to Santa for the Make-A-Wish Believe campaign. Delivering them to Macy's on Friday, each letter worth a $2 donation from the store to the charity.

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Billy Trigg with Make-A-Wish says it's campaigns like this one that will help dreams come true.

"If this doesn't get people into the spirit of the season, then I don't know what will," Trigg said.

Luke, along with 17-year-old Justice White, collected more than 100,000 letters. They say they do this to give back to an organization that helped them.

Justice lives with a liver and lung disease, and Luke was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was a toddler.

They wanted to thank everyone who wrote a letter to Santa, and helped them make a massive donation to the foundation.

"It's crazy to believe that the word travels so quickly across the country," Justice said. "We're getting letters in our mailboxes from Tennessee and Hawaii."

"It's everyone in the country that helped with the letters," Luke said. "I just want to say it's not just a couple of people, it's everyone who wrote letters."